Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > September 17 to 23, 2001

Overview

68 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 2 critical vulnerabilities and 23 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 65 products from 46 vendors including Microsoft, Freebsd, SUN, Netwin, and Maxum Development Corporation. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Memory Leak", and "Improper Input Validation".

  • 51 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 68 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 11 reported vulnerabilities.
  • IBM has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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2 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0552 HP
IBM
ovactiond in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) 6.1 and Tivoli Netview 5.x and 6.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a certain SNMP trap message.
10.0
2001-09-18 CVE-2001-0961 John E Davis Buffer Overflow vulnerability in John E. Davis MOST

Buffer overflow in tab expansion capability of the most program allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed file that is viewed with most.

10.0

23 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-09-21 CVE-2001-0940 Checkpoint Unspecified vulnerability in Checkpoint Firewall-1 4.0/4.1

Buffer overflow in the GUI authentication code of Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management Server 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long user name.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0964 Valve Software Remote Security vulnerability in Half-Life

Buffer overflow in client for Half-Life 1.1.0.8 and earlier allows malicious remote servers to execute arbitrary code via a long console command.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0963 PI Soft Directory Traversal vulnerability in Pi-Soft Spoonftp 1.1

Directory traversal vulnerability in SpoonFTP 1.1 allows local and sometimes remote attackers to access files outside of the FTP root via a ...

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0704 Arcadia Unspecified vulnerability in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0

tradecli.dll in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0 allows a remote attacker to discover the full path to the working directory via a URL with a template argument for a file that does not exist.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0702 Grant Averett Buffer Overflow DoS vulnerability in Cerberus FTP Server

Cerberus FTP 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a long (1) username, (2) password, or (3) PASV command.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0700 W3M Buffer Overflow vulnerability in W3M Malformed MIME Header

Buffer overflow in w3m 0.2.1 and earlier allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a long base64 encoded MIME header.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0694 Texas Imperial Software Directory Traversal vulnerability in Texas Imperial Software Wftpd 3.00R5

Directory traversal vulnerability in WFTPD 3.00 R5 allows a remote attacker to view arbitrary files via a dot dot attack in the CD command.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0692 Watchguard Unspecified vulnerability in Watchguard Firebox 2500 and Firebox 4500

SMTP proxy in WatchGuard Firebox (2500 and 4500) 4.5 and 4.6 allows a remote attacker to bypass firewall filtering via a base64 MIME encoded email attachment whose boundary name ends in two dashes.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0690 University OF Cambridge
Conectiva
Debian
Redhat
Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.
7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0689 Trend Micro Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Trend Micro Virus Control System 1.8

Vulnerability in TrendMicro Virus Control System 1.8 allows a remote attacker to view configuration files and change the configuration via a certain CGI program.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0668 HP Buffer Overflow vulnerability in HP HP-UX Line Printer Daemon

Buffer overflow in line printer daemon (rlpdaemon) in HP-UX 10.01 through 11.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0658 Microsoft Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Microsoft ISA Server 2000

Cross-site scripting (CSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 allows remote attackers to cause other clients to execute certain script or read cookies via malicious script in an invalid URL that is not properly quoted in an error message.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0645 Axent Remote Security vulnerability in Axent Netprowler 3.5/3.5.1

Symantec/AXENT NetProwler 3.5.x contains several default passwords, which could allow remote attackers to (1) access to the management tier via the "admin" password, or (2) connect to a MySQL ODBC from the management tier using a blank password.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0644 Maxum Development Corporation Unspecified vulnerability in Maxum Development Corporation Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.2/1.3.3/1.3.4

Maxum Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.3 and 2.0.3 dev 3 stores passwords in plaintext in the "Rumpus User Database" file in the prefs folder, which could allow attackers to gain privileges on the server.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0636 Raytheon Unspecified vulnerability in Raytheon Silentrunner 2.0/2.0.1

Buffer overflows in Raytheon SilentRunner allow remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service in the collector (cle.exe) component of SilentRunner 2.0 via traffic containing long passwords, or (2) execute arbitrary commands via long HTTP queries in the Knowledge Browser component in SilentRunner 2.0 and 2.0.1.

7.5
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0541 Microsoft Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player .NSC File

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed Windows Media Station (.NSC) file.

7.5
2001-09-19 CVE-2001-0962 IBM Unspecified vulnerability in IBM products

IBM WebSphere Application Server 3.02 through 3.53 uses predictable session IDs for cookies, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges of WebSphere users via brute force guessing.

7.5
2001-09-23 CVE-2001-1034 Freebsd Unspecified vulnerability in Freebsd 4.4

Format string vulnerability in Hylafax on FreeBSD allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format specifiers in the -h hostname argument for (1) faxrm or (2) faxalter.

7.2
2001-09-22 CVE-2001-0955 Xfree86 Project Denial of Service vulnerability in Xfree86 Project X11R6 4.0/4.0.1/4.0.3

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

7.2
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0701 SUN Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Solaris PTExec

Buffer overflow in ptexec in the Sun Validation Test Suite 4.3 and earlier allows a local user to gain privileges via a long -o argument.

7.2
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0699 SUN Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SUN Sunos 5.8

Buffer overflow in cb_reset in the System Service Processor (SSP) package of SunOS 5.8 allows a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long argument.

7.2
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0507 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0

IIS 5.0 uses relative paths to find system files that will run in-process, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file, aka the "System file listing privilege elevation" vulnerability.

7.2
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0506 Microsoft Buffer Overrun Privelege Elevation vulnerability in Microsoft products

Buffer overflow in ssinc.dll in IIS 5.0 and 4.0 allows local users to gain system privileges via a Server-Side Includes (SSI) directive for a long filename, which triggers the overflow when the directory name is added, aka the "SSI privilege elevation" vulnerability.

7.2

37 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-09-21 CVE-2001-1023 Xcache Technologies Path Disclosure vulnerability in Xcache 2.0/2.1

Xcache 2.1 allows remote attackers to determine the absolute path of web server documents by requesting a URL that is not cached by Xcache, which returns the full pathname in the Content-PageName header.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-1018 Lotus Unspecified vulnerability in Lotus Domino 5.0.8

Lotus Domino web server 5.08 allows remote attackers to determine the internal IP address of the server when NAT is enabled via a GET request that contains a long sequence of / (slash) characters.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0710 Freebsd
Netbsd
NetBSD 1.5 and earlier and FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of IP fragments to the machine, exhausting the mbuf pool.
5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0709 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server

Microsoft IIS 4.0 and before, when installed on a FAT partition, allows a remote attacker to obtain source code of ASP files via a URL encoded with Unicode.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0708 Denicomp Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Rexecd

Denicomp REXECD 1.05 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0707 Denicomp Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in RSHD

Denicomp RSHD 2.18 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string to port 514.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0705 Arcadia Unspecified vulnerability in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in tradecli.dll in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0 allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the web server via a URL with "dot dot" sequences in the template argument.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0703 Arcadia Denial of Service vulnerability in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0

tradecli.dll in Arcadia Internet Store 1.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a URL request with an MS-DOS device name in the template parameter.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0698 Netwin Information Disclosure vulnerability in Netwin SurgeFTP Server

Directory traversal vulnerability in NetWin SurgeFTP 2.0a and 1.0b allows a remote attacker to list arbitrary files and directories via the 'nlist ...' command.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0697 Netwin Unspecified vulnerability in Netwin Surgeftp 1.1H

NetWin SurgeFTP prior to 1.1h allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via an 'ls ..' command.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0696 Netwin Denial of Service vulnerability in Netwin SurgeFTP Server MS-DOS Device Name

NetWin SurgeFTP 2.0a and 1.0b allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a CD command to a directory with an MS-DOS device name such as con.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0695 Texas Imperial Software Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Texas Imperial Software Wftpd 3.00R5

WFTPD 3.00 R5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by making repeated requests to cd to the floppy drive (A:\).

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0693 Webtrends Unspecified vulnerability in Webtrends products

WebTrends HTTP Server 3.1c and 3.5 allows a remote attacker to view script source code via a filename followed by an encoded space (%20).

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0688 Transsoft Buffer Overflow vulnerability in TransSoft Broker CWD

Broker FTP Server 5.9.5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by repeatedly issuing an invalid CD or CWD ("CD .

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0687 Transsoft Directory Traversal vulnerability in TransSoft Broker FTP Server

Broker FTP server 5.9.5 for Windows NT and 9x allows a remote attacker to retrieve privileged web server system information by (1) issuing a CD command (CD C:) followed by the LS command, (2) specifying arbitrary paths in the UNC format (\\computername\sharename).

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0684 Netscape Unspecified vulnerability in Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.2/3.5.4

Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.4 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending seven or more characters to TCP port 5239.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0683 Netscape Unspecified vulnerability in Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.2/3.5.4

Memory leak in Netscape Collabra Server 3.5.4 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by repeatedly sending approximately 5K of data to TCP port 5238.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0681 QPC Software Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in QPC Software QVT NET and QVT Term

Buffer overflow in ftpd in QPC QVT/Net 5.0 and QVT/Term 5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long (1) username or (2) password.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0680 QPC Software Directory Traversal vulnerability in QPC QVT Suite FTP Server

Directory traversal vulnerability in ftpd in QPC QVT/Net 4.0 and AVT/Term 5.0 allows a remote attacker to traverse directories on the web server via a "dot dot" attack in a LIST (ls) command.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0677 Qualcomm Unspecified vulnerability in Qualcomm Eudora 5.0.2

Eudora 5.0.2 allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files via an email with the path of the target file in the "Attachment Converted" MIME header, which sends the file when the email is forwarded to the attacker by the user.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0676 Ritlabs Directory Traversal vulnerability in The Bat

Directory traversal vulnerability in Rit Research Labs The Bat! 1.48f and earlier allows a remote attacker to create arbitrary files via a "dot dot" attack in the filename for an attachment.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0675 Ritlabs Unspecified vulnerability in Ritlabs the BAT 1.51

Rit Research Labs The Bat! 1.51 for Windows allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an email to a user's account containing a carriage return <CR> that is not followed by a line feed <LF>.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0674 Robtex Directory Traversal vulnerability in Viking Server 1.0.4/1.0.6/1.0.7

Directory traversal vulnerability in RobTex Viking Web server before 1.07-381 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a hexadecimal encoded dot-dot attack (eg.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0659 Microsoft Buffer Overflow Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 IrDA

Buffer overflow in IrDA driver providing infrared data exchange on Windows 2000 allows attackers who are physically close to the machine to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a malformed IrDA packet.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0650 Cisco Denial of Service vulnerability in Cisco IOS 11.2/11.3/12.0

Cisco devices IOS 12.0 and earlier allow a remote attacker to cause a crash, or bad route updates, via malformed BGP updates with unrecognized transitive attribute.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0649 Apple Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Apple Personal web Sharing 1.5.5

Personal Web Sharing 1.5.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long HTTP request.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0648 Phprojekt Unspecified vulnerability in PHProjekt 2.0/2.0.1/2.1

Directory traversal vulnerability in PHProjekt 2.1 and earlier allows a remote attacker to conduct unauthorized activities via a dot dot (..) attack on the file module.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0646 Maxum Development Corporation Remote FTP Server DoS vulnerability in Maxum Development Corporation Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.2/1.3.4/2.0.3Dev

Maxum Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.3 and 2.0.3 dev 3 allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (hang) by creating a directory name of a specific length.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0546 Microsoft Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft ISA Server 2000

Memory leak in H.323 Gatekeeper Service in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large amount of malformed H.323 data.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0543 Microsoft Memory Leak vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT

Memory leak in NNTP service in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed posts.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0509 Microsoft Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Microsoft products

Vulnerabilities in RPC servers in (1) Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and earlier, (2) Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and earlier, (3) Windows NT 4.0, and (4) Windows 2000 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed inputs.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0508 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0

Vulnerability in IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (restart) via a long, invalid WebDAV request.

5.0
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0691 University OF Washington Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Imapd 'Local'

Buffer overflows in Washington University imapd 2000a through 2000c could allow local users without shell access to execute code as themselves in certain configurations.

4.6
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0686 SUN Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SUN Solaris 5.8/8.0

Buffer overflow in mail included with SunOS 5.8 for x86 allows a local user to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

4.6
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0678 Trend Micro Unspecified vulnerability in Trend Micro Interscan Viruswall and Interscan Webmanager

A buffer overflow in reggo.dll file used by Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall prior to 3.51 build 1349 for Windows NT 3.5 and InterScan WebManager 1.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.

4.6
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0653 Sendmail Unspecified vulnerability in Sendmail

Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.

4.6
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0641 Immunix
Redhat
Suse
Heap Overflow vulnerability in Man -S

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

4.6

6 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0685 Thibault Godouet Symbolic Link vulnerability in Thibault Godouet Fcron

Thibault Godouet FCron prior to 1.1.1 allows a local user to corrupt another user's crontab file via a symlink attack on the fcrontab temporary file.

2.6
2001-09-18 CVE-2001-1353 Aladdin Enterprises Unspecified vulnerability in Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript

ghostscript before 6.51 allows local users to read and write arbitrary files as the 'lp' user via the file operator, even with -dSAFER enabled.

2.6
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-1029 Openbsd
Freebsd
libutil in OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier does not drop privileges before verifying the capabilities for reading the copyright and welcome files, which allows local users to bypass the capabilities checks and read arbitrary files by specifying alternate copyright or welcome files.
2.1
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0706 Maxum Development Corporation Stack Overflow DoS vulnerability in Rumpus FTP Server

Maximum Rumpus FTP Server 2.0.3 dev and before allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a mkdir command that specifies a large number of sub-folders.

2.1
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0642 Incredimail Directory Traversal vulnerability in Incredimail 2.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in IncrediMail version 1400185 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files on the local hard drive by appending ..

2.1
2001-09-20 CVE-2001-0547 Microsoft Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft ISA Server 2000

Memory leak in the proxy service in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 allows local attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion).

2.1